Further evidence of Cheung Kwai, the son of Cheung Yau-lei,
and one of the three men who were taken out of the sumpan
to go ashore at Lintin.
Note: This witness' eyesight was much better than the
other two men's. Ile clearly distinguished an 0.5.K. House Flag flying about 300 yards away, though he took it to look
like this:
instead of like this:
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When describing things outside his normal life be
was unable, like most of the otæ illiterate fishermen here,
to form or curr, a clear-cut picture of what he saw, let
alone describe it adequately.
He stated :
1. "When the Japanese motor-boat first approacled
us I did not notice if it had a flag. It had no funnel
that I saw, and one mast forward; the hull was grey, and the
bridge and mast a dull brownish or yellow-brown. There was
a gun up toward the bows, but I do not know what colour it
was as it was covered over with a grey-painted canvas cover;
there were two men by the gun. I cannot read". (itness
was unable to appreciate an Arabic numeral or an english letter
or a Chinese ciaracter). "There were some white-painted
markings on the stern and
said he could not draw i
on the bows of the ship." witness
the attached sketch of the ship was
eventually produced by me in the same way as with Cheung Yau-
lei